iMessage and FaceTime down. Are you affected?

iMessage and FaceTime are both experiencing outages according to Apple's iCloud system status page, and numerous reports flooding into iMore's various comm channels. Apple says service will be restored asap.

Online continues to be a huge challenge for Apple, and if you haven't already, I invite you to read why I think it's going to be one of Apple's biggest challenges going forward.

As always, let me know if iMessage and FaceTime are working for you, where you are, and when you get your service back.

What does "TIM COOK" vs. Steve Jobs have to do with servers going down??? Was not MobileMe under Steve Jobs' watch!? I personally do believe that Apple needs to get this Sh*t together, BIG TIME! But I don't believe that this would've never happened under Steve Jobs, that's asinine.

I had an iMessage stuck so i long pressed and changed it to a text, i then went to the status page and it said everything was fine, i assume the status page is not automatically changed but manually changed which does not make it very useful. also iMessage has been going down A LOT it seems very frustrating.

Sure would be nice if they sent some sort of notification. I've been messing around with settings, changed my Apple ID info and even was ready to restore from my cloud backup. Fortunately I saw the iMore feed on my Yahoo... THANK YOU iMore

Definitely down. What I don't understand is why Apple felt iMessage was necessary in the first place. Especially now that more and more people are on capped data plans. I now have unlimited messages and minutes, but limited data. I just turned iMessage off on my iPhone, and I'm thinking I might just keep it off on all of the family iPhones...

apple website said its normal now. However, I cant send imessages to my friends' phone numbers (registered with imessages). Mine keeps saying waiting for activation. I also try to send imessages from my Mac to my friends' iphones ,and it said the phone numbers are not registered with . Any help?

Massachusetts, USA
iPhone 4S / Sprint
Been affected all day and the iCloud status says all systems are back up, but me and everyone else I know that uses iMessage still can't use it. I can't even use it from my mac.

It was down in Nashville too. I will be honest I am getting a little annoyed with iMessage uptime. Apple needs to figure this out fast, there is no reason that something this big and important should ever go down. You know SMS never goes down.

I just bought my iPad mini yesterday.. All I do the whole day is to activate iMessage my iPad it doesn't even have built in FaceTime I cannot find it!! Its keeps on telling me the username/password is incorrect, i already reset my password. I am planning to return it tomorrow. I hope Apple will resolve this issue as soon as possible...
Faye, Dubai UAE